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Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in New Jersey. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
New Jersey healthcare directive requirements
How it works
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Answer a few questions
About your care preferences and who you want making decisions.
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Download your healthcare directive
A complete, personalized document, formatted for New Jersey.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 2 adult witnesses. Give a copy to your healthcare agent and your doctor.
What governs a New Jersey directive
New Jersey's healthcare-directive statute is at N.J. Stat. §26:2H-53 et seq.. Your directive is valid the moment it's signed under your state's witness and notary rules above; it only takes effect if your physician determines you can't make or communicate decisions yourself.
Who can witness your New Jersey directive
Each of us declares that we are at least eighteen years of age and that we are not the healthcare representative or alternate healthcare representative named in this Advance Directive. This attestation is drafted to satisfy N.J.S.A. 26:2H-56, which requires that the directive be signed 'in the presence of two subscribing adult witnesses, who shall attest that the declarant is of sound mind and free of duress and undue influence,' and that 'a designated health care representative shall not act as a witness to the execution of an advance directive.' New Jersey does not impose the broader relative, heir, or facility-employee witness disqualifications that some other states' Living Will statutes adopt.
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